Investigators Tuesday searched the apartment of former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko who is now an opponent of the powerful prime minister and his Cabinet, The Associated Press news agency reports, quoting Lutsenko’s spokeswoman.
Popularity: 7% [?]
March 21, 2007A court in California has sentenced two Soviet emigrants to death for kidnapping and brutally murdering five people, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Tuesday.
Popularity: 9% [?]
March 14, 2007Georgian authorities on Monday accused forces from the breakaway region in Abkhazia of shelling several Georgian-controlled villages, The Associated Press news agency reports.
Popularity: 7% [?]
March 12, 2007A coffin with purported remains of Georgia’s president who was overthrown in 1992 and died the following year under mysterious circumstances was unearthed Saturday in the Chechen capital, his son said, the Associated Press reported March 5.
Popularity: 3% [?]
March 5, 2007A Russian ultra-right movement has launched a campaign to propose Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko as a candidate for Russia’s 2008 presidential election, the Radio Free Europe reported on Wednesday.
Popularity: 7% [?]
February 28, 2007The Estonian authorities’ attempts to legalize the dismantling of monuments to Soviet soldiers are insulting and could have an impact on Russian-Estonian relations, the Russian Foreign Ministry website said on Thursday.
Popularity: 7% [?]
January 19, 2007Eight Russian tourists and an Uzbek, along with two Egyptians, were injured Friday when a tourist bus overturned in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, MENA news agency reported.
Popularity: 4% [?]
December 15, 2006Representatives of the Russian Diaspora in Ukraine set up a coordinating council on Tuesday. It will be chaired by Ukraine’s Parliament lawmaker Leonid Grach, ITAR-TASS news agency reports.
Popularity: 3% [?]
December 13, 2006
Georgia’s Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli met US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and US Trade Representative Ambassador Susan C. Schwab in Washington DC Monday, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Popularity: 4% [?]
December 12, 2006
Amnesty International on Thursday urged Estonia to ease contentious language and citizenship laws that it said have alienated the Russian-speaking minority in the Baltic country.
Popularity: 9% [?]
December 7, 2006
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